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Andy Bassett
Background
Small electronics company of 11 people assembling simple electronics components for customers.
Components are often supplied by the customers, if not the vast majority are bought from distributors.
After a hot discussion about Supplier Selection last week, i threw away the Standard and said OK. 'If you need a new supplier what do you do?'
The reply was; I source a supplier and ask colleagues and friends what they know about them.
What! No questionnaires, no audits, no demand to see ISo certs, hardly ISO compliant you may think.
But wait a moment. We are constantly being told when we are looking for accountants, lawyers doctors or consultants to seek references. Maybe this is a valid form of supplier selection.
So if this is true, what would stop me creating a simple table, where my client lists his suppliers and his source of recommendation? ie Supplier 'Jon Doe' recommended to me by Fred Smith 14.6.2000.
I realise that this is efficient, flexible and dangerously close to reality, but even so, will i get it past an ISO auditor.
What about the distributors? I am going to try and aviod listing them anywhere simply becuase it will add no value. It is a fact that electrical components are traded like commodities, even if they cant get them where they want, they will go somewhere else in the world, requesting ISO certs or questionnaires to be filled out is simply not value adding.
If this flies they will be down to listng and measuring just 5 of their suppliers that actually produce goods to their specs.
What do you think. Could it fly?
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Andy B
Small electronics company of 11 people assembling simple electronics components for customers.
Components are often supplied by the customers, if not the vast majority are bought from distributors.
After a hot discussion about Supplier Selection last week, i threw away the Standard and said OK. 'If you need a new supplier what do you do?'
The reply was; I source a supplier and ask colleagues and friends what they know about them.
What! No questionnaires, no audits, no demand to see ISo certs, hardly ISO compliant you may think.
But wait a moment. We are constantly being told when we are looking for accountants, lawyers doctors or consultants to seek references. Maybe this is a valid form of supplier selection.
So if this is true, what would stop me creating a simple table, where my client lists his suppliers and his source of recommendation? ie Supplier 'Jon Doe' recommended to me by Fred Smith 14.6.2000.
I realise that this is efficient, flexible and dangerously close to reality, but even so, will i get it past an ISO auditor.
What about the distributors? I am going to try and aviod listing them anywhere simply becuase it will add no value. It is a fact that electrical components are traded like commodities, even if they cant get them where they want, they will go somewhere else in the world, requesting ISO certs or questionnaires to be filled out is simply not value adding.
If this flies they will be down to listng and measuring just 5 of their suppliers that actually produce goods to their specs.
What do you think. Could it fly?
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Andy B